Flying Carpet's Flight Sim repaints...
DAC Aviation
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* All flights are operated on behalf of the United Nations and/or other NGO's using their own callsigns and flight numbers
DAC Aviation was founded in 1991 by Emmanuel Anassis, a bush pilot who noticed firsthand while working in East Africa the need for a reliable air service provider assisting the various NGO's operating in that region.
The company initially operated DHC-5 Buffalos but soon upgraded its offer with Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft.
These aircraft are all based in Nairobi Wilson Airport, Kenya and operated by subsidiary CMC Aviation, while the Canadian head office specializes in maintenance and repair for a wide variety of aircraft types.
DAC Aviation aircraft are operated on behalf of the United Nation's World Food Program, the European Union's Humanitarian arm ECHO, and other NGO's active in East and Central Africa
Recent flightplans are available here *
Representative flightplans for the ECHOFLIGHT aircraft are included in the related package.
Older (2007) UNO flightplans can be found here
* This link points to a thread on the Alpha India forum. You probably need to be registered on the forum to have access to the thread and flightplans
Bombardier Dash 8-300
CMC Aviation operates a number of Bombardier Dash 8s on behalf on the United Nations' World Food Program, including 5Y-MOC
To be used with the Fruit Stand Bombardier Dash 8-300 base model
Bombardier Dash 8-100/200
Bombardier Dash 8-200 5Y-GRS is operated by CMC Aviation on behalf of the United Nations' World Food Program in full colours
To be used with the Fruit Stand Bombardier Dash 8-100/200 base model
Bombardier Dash 8-200 5Y-ENA is operated by CMC Aviation in full International Commitee of the Red Cross colours
To be used with the Fruit Stand Bombardier Dash-8 100/200 (nose landing light model) base model
DAC Aviation operates Bombardier Dash 8-200 5Y-BTP on behalf of ECHO, the humanitarian arm of the European Union Commission
This package also includes representative flight plans for this aircraft
To be used with the Fruit Stand Bombardier Dash 8-100/200 base model
Donate!
Each repaint means long hours of research and hard work to make it look as close as possible to the real world original.
Although it is all available here for free, I will appreciate any contribution to keep me going maintaining this website and bringing you more flightsimming goodies!
You can use Paypal from wherever you are to send me any amount you feel like giving -hint: the more the merrier! ;-)
About my repaints
These textures are intended for use as AI traffic in Microsoft's Flight Simulator versions 9 and 10.
They have been thoroughly researched and painted based on actual pictures of the real aircraft, so that each individual aircraft is an exact replica of the real thing at the time of painting, down to the precise windows configuration and the stencils colours and locations.
To view them in your simulator, you need first to download and install the base aircraft models/packages available separately . Most of these models are available from the usual avsim and/or flightsim libraries, but I have provided a link to these base packages on this site for your easy reference. Check the links section.
You will also need adequate flightplans to take these birds into your virtual skies. Running a search on avsim and flightsim libraries will get you up to date flightplans for most of the world's airlines
About bitmap formats
Most of my repaints are provided in three textures formats: 32bits, dxt3 and dxt3 with mipmaps.
AI traffic can draw heavily on your computer resources and significantly reduce your sim's framerate. Using the right set of textures can improve your framerate and ensure smooth and
lifelike movements.
Basically, 32bits texture are larger and therefore having more pixels, will have sharper details and will look better in your sim, particularly at close range. Downside is they take up more HD
space and use more resources.
Mipped textures are supposed to be what fs is really looking for, and will ensure the best framerate and movement smoothness. However, if your graphic processor is an older or a lower end one,
with less than 1GB dedicated memory, mipped textures will look awfully blurred.
To keep things simple, if you run your sim on a new, powerful, high end computer, go for the 32bits or mipped textures, or use the 32bits only for intricate liveries where the quality of finer
details will make a difference.
On the other hand, if you are using an older less powerful machine, or if you are not sure or don't know what all this means, go for the non-mipped dxt3 format.